As he steadily rises in the polls, some recent comments by Newt Gingrich on child labor and child poverty are drawing fresh scrutiny. Promising "extraordinarily radical proposals to fundamentally change the culture of poverty in America," Gingrich said last week he would fire school janitors and pay students to clean schools instead.
The "Octomom" is making headlines again, this time for violating California child labor laws, Yahoo reports. After giving birth to eight babies in January, Nadya Suleman set off a firestorm of controversy when the public learned the unemployed single mother already had six children and was receiving state benefits such as food stamps.
- A child must be 14 years old to work, and work permits are required for 14- and 15-year-olds. - A child younger than 16 may work up to three hours on a school day, 18 hours in a school week, eight hours on a non-school day, 40 hours on a non-school week.
An Oklahoma lawmaker wants to change child labor laws in an effort to reduce high school dropout rates. But the Oklahoma labor commissioner thinks the change might have the opposite effect. A lot of youth in my district work as soon as they are old enough to get a job, said state Rep. Rebecca Hamilton, D-Oklahoma City. They don't do this to make extra money. They do it to help support their families, to pay rent and buy food. Consequently, they are afraid to refuse to work long hours, even though working late at night may leave them so tired they can't stay awake or function at school the next day.
Editorial The Dept of Labor and Dept of Justice have strongly objected to a bill proposed in Congress, exempting Amish youth from child labor laws. They claim the the proposed bill violates the First Amendment and will complicate the enforcement of child labor laws.
CATALDO, Idaho (AP) -- A family that faces thousands of dollars in fines in Washington state because it refused to pay worker's compensation insurance and employed its young children in a house- moving business has moved to Idaho to take advantage of that state's more lenient child labor laws. It's less oppressive," said Jude Doty, a 48-year-old house mover, of his decision to come to Cataldo, a tiny community along U.S. Interstate 90, 65 miles east of Spokane, after running afoul of authorities in Yakima starting in 2002. He recently ran unsuccessfully for Yakima's City Council.
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